{"id":96578,"date":"2025-08-25T19:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T19:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/96578\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T19:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T19:32:07","slug":"nfl-league-personnel-are-prohibited-from-trading-in-sports-events-prediction-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/96578\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL: League personnel are prohibited from trading in sports events prediction markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prediction markets <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/08\/19\/robinhood-nfl-college-football-prediction-markets.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">operated<\/a> by Robinhood and other companies allow for trading on the outcome of NFL games and other sports, but league personnel will not be permitted to make trades on them. <\/p>\n<p>NFL Chief Compliance Officer Sabrina Perel said on Monday that all league personnel, including players, are barred from trading contracts on sports events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese platforms mimic sports betting, they are <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RLinnehanSR\/status\/1960035311343333864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">covered as prohibited<\/a> under our policy,\u201d Perel said, via Robert Linnehan of Sportsradar. <\/p>\n<p>Perel said the league submitted comments advocating against allowing sports events contracts to the Commodities Futures Trading Commission in 2024. Perel said that, while the sites mimic betting, \u201cthey lack regulatory requirements that we know regulated sportsbooks are subjected to\u201d to explain the league\u2019s opposition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The prediction markets operated by Robinhood and other companies allow for trading on the outcome of NFL games&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-96578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}